Souness v Giles: ‘I remember it vividly. Johnny was an absolute rascal. His six studs, a real stinger.’

Graeme Souness adds John Giles to a select group of three midfield opponents.

For several years, John Giles and Graeme Souness sat alongside one another on the RTÉ football panel.

On the famous night when Souness asked Eamon Dunphy where he had managed, and Eamo countered that he had ‘managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years, baby’, the argument began as Giles v Souness, over Arsene Wenger’s supposed parsimony.